This postgraduate course aims to prepare graduates with the professional and personal qualities required for future dietetic practice in a variety of workplace settings. The course integrates academic teaching and learning with clinical, population health, food service, research and management experience and is undertaken in both academic and professional practice placement settings (e.g., clinical, food service, community nutrition and public health nutrition). Professional practice placements may be in an urban or rural setting.
The objectives of the Master of Nutrition and Dietetics have been classified according to the four themes of the course:
Personal development and professional practice
Determinants and influences of public health and nutrition
Nutrition fundamentals of health and disease
Food: From science to systems.
Extra Notes
Entry Requirements
An Australian bachelor degree (or equivalent) in a relevant area of study* with a distinction average (70%). The undergraduate degree must have been completed in the past 10 years unless you have been assessed as having work experience that the Faculty considers equivalent. A second food /nutrition subject at any level is desirable (e.g. food science, nutrition science, lifespan nutrition).
Remarks
* Relevant areas of study include: Biomedical Science, Science, Health Sciences, Nutrition, Food Science And Exercise Science.The undergraduate degree must include:Chemistry/Biochemistry 4 units |Human Biology & Human Physiology 4 units|Human Nutrition 1 unit|Research Methods 1 unit
* NOTE : The Tuition Fee is subject to change Semester wise, as such for exact Tuition Fee kindly see the Website of the respective University.
* NOTE : Pathways : Students who want to pursue a Graduate Degree through a particular University but are unable to meet the university requirements for the GPA, GRE/GMAT or English Language scores, have to take up an additional academic and language support i.e. pathways in order to ensure the admit and study at the desired University.